Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[tocsin]

Can you source your statement..or should I rewrite it in a another manner. To say the problem is from one demographic is implying that there are more console players on this game then PC..then why should SE waste resources on improving the graphics and such "DX11" when the major demographic is console. Base on your statement.

Sure. give me a few minutes.

edit: Argh, this is proving more difficult than intended. I did the initial research on this in college, where the information came from scientific publications that cannot be accessed by anyone. im trying to find a good mirror now for them.

In the meantime, im not saying there are more console players than PC players, but I am saying that console players tend to buy more optional content than pc players do. This is due to the fact that the average age of console players is less than that of PC players, and it has also been proven that younger players have less patience for boring tasks that make gil, and therefore are more likely to buy it illegally.

[Syrehn]

Well with my blacklist constantly maxed out and with a fair stream of new RMT on a consistent basis I only have one option... Busy.

I'm not unfriendly and I wish SE would do something so I didn't have to do this but as of now I will likely be exclusively playing in this status. Thank you SE for taking the social interaction out of your MMO for me. Good job! -__-;

[Kairus]

I recently transferred from Balmung to Malboro, due to the fact that I never really preferred to be on a legacy server. I went from roughly 1-3 RMT messages a day to the scenario described by Zabuza, roughly 1 or more a minute. Coming from a server that is almost always at population cap to one that is not, I realize this is a hurdle that RMTs have to deal with, and I wonder if SE is combating RMT on an individual server basis or as a whole (total RMT) and not taking consideration of this.

This is a major issue and it surprises me that consideration is given in terms of things such as glamors for new players, but not RMT. I don't know how new players tolerate this, but I must applaud them. Honestly, I've been playing less due to this and have thought even more so of letting my subscription lapse.

Sign me up.

[Kaze3434]

Irregardless.

Everything else you said was invalidated by this for me.

[Kairus]

Everything else you said was invalidated by this for me.

Thanks for contributing.

[BreathlessTao]

/signed Shuu Naranol (Shiva)

[Khanscott]

/signed Aevis Sylph@Midgardsormr
Every time I log in I get a "friend" requst. Its like clockwork. S-E gives a list of banned RMT accounts, but all I see is the situation getting worse on this server. Blacklist is worthless, busy status makes associating with others a pain, and S-E needs to pay me if they want me to report all the /tells I get. AFAIK the only indication that S-E is even acknowledging RMT is an arbitrary page on the Lodestone every week or so.

[Magusrex]

/signed

They could end this immediately without any effort on their part. Just permaban gil buyers and destroy the gil. You cannot just slap them on the wrist, if they lose everything they will not buy and RMTs will go away if their is no money to be made.

Make people level to 20 before they can send a friend request or send a tell

[Fenral]

/signed W'fharl Tia (Gilgamesh)

[tocsin]

Just letting everyone know, Zabuza, the author of the petition, was banned from the forums for 10 days for issues relating to this thread (the making fun of the task force a few pages ago). So they are watching and listening.

He will update the signatures when he gets back. In the meantime, guys, lets make sure that we keep this strictly on-topic, to not give SE any reason to just close this thread to quiet us.